Patti Drew Biography

29 December 1944, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, and raised in Evanston, Illinois. As lead singer of the Drew-vels, a group comprising herself, her sisters Lorraine and Erma, and bass singer Carlton Black, Drew and the band had several local hits, notably Tell Him (1963) and Its My Time (1964). Drew became a solo artist two years later and achieved her biggest hits with a remake of Tell Him (number 22 R&B, number 85), from 1967, and Workin On A Groovy Thing (number 34 R&B, number 62 pop), from 1968, a Neil Sedaka composition that was also a hit for the Fifth Dimension. After Drews last record with Capitol Records in 1970, she essentially retired from the business a year later. She made one more record for Inovation in 1975. In the 80s she occasionally worked the local lounges in her home town of Evanston with Carlton Black in a group called Front Line.

Source: The Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin. Licensed from Muze.